Mikhail Dorogavtsev

Mikhail Dorogavtsev was born on 4 May 1984 in the village of Kalinets, Oryol Oblast, the older of two children. His father was an aggressive alcoholic who physically abused and even threatened to kill young Mikhail and his mother, leading to the boy becoming withdrawn and showing signs of a personality disorder at an early age. Eventually, his mother divorced her husband and remarried, after which she took the children and moved to the neighboring village of Norovka, where Dorogavtsev graduated from high school. Life after demobilization After demobilization, Dorogavtsev returned to Livny, where he soon found employment and worked briefly as a warden at a penal colony. Not long after, the prison authorities discovered that he was abusing the inmates in his designated cell block by subjecting them to cruel treatments, leading to his dismissal. Dorogavtsev struggled with finding another job for a long time after this. In the late 2000s, he married a foreign woman and had a child with her. Soon, the family moved to Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast, where Dorogavtsev found a job as a fitter for the "Topaz" jewelry factory. Despite the move, he often returned to the Oryol Oblast to visit relatives, often staying for several days or even weeks at a time. While he was generally well-liked, but according to his sister, he intentionally avoided drinking alcohol as he would become very belligerent, similarly to his father. In his free time, Dorogavtsev spent time by himself reading books, mostly about Norse mythology. ==Murders==

Suspected murder According to Dorogavtsev himself, he committed his first murder at age 17 in late December 2001, shortly after he had returned to Livny to celebrate New Year's Eve with friends. After drinking alcohol together, he parted ways with them and started wandering around the city. He eventually arrived at a bus stop and approached a middle-aged woman to propose her for sex. After she refused, Dorogavtsev alleged that he grabbed a nearby rock and hit her on the head as hard as he could, killing her on the spot. Oksana Chechetkina On 5 May, Dorogavtsev was driving around the Livensky District when he came across 35-year-old Oksana Chechetkina, a post office employee who was out delivering pensions and welfare, near an unpaved road in Kazanskoye. After slowing down his car, he offered to give her a ride, to which Chechetkina agreed and sat in the front seat. This time, Dorogavtsev asked her outright to have sex with him, but was refused yet again. ==Arrest, investigation and confessions==

After Chechetkina did not return home and it became known that nobody had seen her since two o'clock in the afternoon, her husband Sergey turned to the police. During an inspection of the area, officers found puddles of blood along the road, leading them to initially believe that Chechetkina might have been killed in an automobile accident and that the driver hid the body out of fear of being imprisoned. At the same time, Dorogavtsev participated in the search party looking for the woman. While interviewing locals, a witness appeared who stated that on 5 May, he almost got into a high-speed collision with a blue-colored car. While he did not remember the license plate, he remembered the regional number - 44, which belonged to Kostroma Oblast. On 26 April, another shallow grave was located nearby containing the decomposing remains of Bakurova. Subsequently, Dorogavtsev confessed to both murders and described in great detail how he killed them. His house was also searched, leading to the discovery of jewelry belonging to Chechetkina which was found in an asbestos pipe in the outhouse and blood splotches on the interior of Dorogavtsev's car. During the investigations, he pretended to be mentally ill, often repeating that he had killed the women on the orders of Odin and his wife Freya, whose voices commanded him to kill women for supposed insolence against men. Initially, this ruse was believe, as a notebook containing runic symbols dating back to his childhood were found in the house. However, this was conclusively disproven in October 2012, when Dorogavtsev underwent a psychiatric evaluation in Kursk, where he was found be sane. ==Trial and imprisonment==

After being ruled sane to stand trial, Dorogavtsev was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of abuse of corpses and two counts of theft. His case was brought to the court in January 2013. He soon filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, but it was rejected on 7 August, finalizing his sentence. ==See also==

• The case was covered on the episode "Village Murderer" () from the series "On the trail of a Monster" ==References==